Traveling thrasher



(No Model.)

1). YOUNG.

TRAVELING THRASHER.

No. 326,617. Patented Sept. 22; 1885.

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UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

DAVID YOUNG, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.

TRAVELING TH RASHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,617, datedSeptember 22,1885.

Application filed February 11, 1885. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID YOUNG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Stockton, in the county of San Joaquin and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTraveling Thrashers, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Myinvention relates to an improvement in traveling thrashers; and itconsists in a frame of a peculiar construction supported by suitabledriving-wheels, and having operating devices arranged and located in anovel manner, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

The purpose of this invention is toimprove the construction of thetraveling thrasher for which Letters Patent No. 311,705 were granted tome February 3, 1885, so as to make it more convenient in use and moreeffective in operation. Irearrange the operating-gearing and dispensewith the gear-wheels e, f, g, i, and j, as shown in said Letters Patent,and in their place substitute belts and pulleys. The ad'- vantage ofsuch change and substitution is that the machine is of simplerconstruction and of lighter draft and more durable, because the partsare fewer, simpler, cheaper, and more easily renewed. The machine alsois operated more easily with belting than with gearing.

. In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan View ofthat part ofatraveling thrasher which shows my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of theright side of the same.

The frame of my machine, upon which the thrasher and operating devicesare supported, consists of the main cross-beams O and 0, rear and front,respectively, extending the entire width of the machine, and thelongitudinal beams A, B, B, and A. All ofthelongit-udiual beams arebolted or otherwise secured to crossbearns O and C. The beams B and Bextend forwardly ofbearn C and are secured to girder O", to which issecured the axle offront supporting trucks. Asupporting and drivingwheel, D, has its journal bearings secured to beams A and B. From thiswheel the motion necessary to actuate the different portions of the thrasher, &c., is derived by means of suitable gearing, as will beshown.Asupporting-wheel, E, has its journal-bearings secured to beams B and A.

6 represents the shaft of the wheel D, having its journal bearingssecured, as shown, to beams A and B. To the inner end of shaft is fixeda large spur-wheel, a. A shaft, (1, which has its bearings uponbeamsBand B, at a suitable distance to the rear of shaft 1), has fixc toit the pinion c, which meshes with spur wheel a. The other end of shaftd has fixet to it a large spur-wheel, e. A shaft, 9, whicl has itsbearings upon beams B and B, at a suit able distance to the rear ofshaft d, has fixer to ita pinion, f,which meshes with spur-whee e. Apulley, h, is fixed to left-hand end of shat g. The pulley h isconnected by a belt wit] the system of pulleys and shafts operating thrworks of the separator and thrash er, except thr cylinder and fan-milland feeder, which are op erated by a pulley, i, at the right-hand end 0the shaft g, which is connected by belt j witl a pulley, k, on theright-hand end of the cylin der-shaft Z. Pulley n on the left-hand end 0the shaft Z may be connected by beltwith pul ley O on end of shaftP,actuatinga self-feeder in frontof the cylinder, while a pulley, m, orthe left-hand end, outside of pulleyaof shaft 1, can operate thefan-mill by a connectingbelt,

The thrasher and separator, 850., may be 0: any ordinary or approvedconstruction,and the parts not herein shown or described may be beltedor geared as required, motion being received primarily from the wheel Dand the system of shafts and gearing herein described.

What I claim as new and of my invention is 1. As an improvement intraveling thrashers, the combination,with aflsupporting-frame, of adrive-wheel, a large gear-Wheel on the shaft thereof, a transverse shaftmounted in rear of the drive-wheel, and carrying at one end a pinionintermeshing with the said gear and at the other end a largegear-wheel,a shaft with a pinion intermeshing with the gearwheel on thetransverse shaft and carrying a band-pulley, the cylinder-shaftjournaledin the forward end of the machine and carrying apulley,and aconnecting-belt, the whole operating substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

2. The combination of the frame, thedrivewheel D, gear-wheel a on itsshaft, the shaft d, mounted forward of the drive-wheel and carryingpinion c, and gear-wheel e, the shaft g,with pinionf, and bandpulleyshi, and shaft l, cylinder mounted forward of the drive-Wheel andprovidedwithpulleyslcmn,combinedto operate substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID YOUNG. Witnesses:

JOSHUA B. Wnes'rnn,

ELIHU B. Srown.

